Saturday, July 04, 2020

Brazil’s first black evangelical minister of Education fell for cheating with fake credentials before being inaugurated


Brazil’s first black evangelical minister of Education fell for cheating with fake credentials before being inaugurated

By Julio Severo
Black evangelical professor Carlos Alberto Decotelli had been chosen as Brazil’s new Minister of Education by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, but his inauguration became impossible because of his personal educational scandals.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and Carlos Alberto Decotelli
Even though his inauguration as a black would be a victory for the Bolsonaro administration, which is accused by black left-wingers of not giving them the big respect they demand, the inauguration shipwrecked.
Decotelli faced a slew of allegations that he embellished his academic credentials.
According to the Associated Press,
Decotelli also had included on his resume a doctorate from the University of Rosario in Argentina, but the rector of that institution said on Twitter last week that he hadn’t finished his studies.
The nominee also claimed a post-doctoral degree from the University of Wuppertal in Germany. Local television network Globo cited a statement from the university saying Decotelli obtained no such degree.
His deceptive curriculum is a total contrast with his statement, which said,
“I grew up inside the First Baptist Church in Rio and I am focused on New Testament issues in the traditional evangelical core, such as the Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian churches. I attended Sunday school since I was two years old and today I am a member of the First Baptist Church of Curitiba, Brazil. In the convictions that are in the Bible, in the New Testament, I believe. A matter of faith. This is how I proceed in my life.”
Decotelli is a traditional Baptist. Traditional Protestants, even Baptists, often accuse Pentecostal and charismatics of no or insufficient education. But Decotelli, as a traditional Baptist, had plenty of fake educational credentials.
He has also been an advocate of the quota system, which grants educational privileges not based on merit, work and personal effort, but just on the skin color. Such unfairness fits the moral standard of Decotelli, where blacks like him can get educational credentials by any means possible, including by cheating.
His behavior as a cheater is a shame not only to traditional Baptists and traditional Protestants. It is a shame also to evangelicals in general who do not accept lies and cheating.
Left-wing activists attacked incessantly Decotelli and his lies. But you would have a hard time to understand their behavior. Cheating and lies are normal in the left-wing universe, even in their curriculums and educational credentials. The difference is that they spare their own cheaters while condemning right-wing cheaters.
If Decotelli were a left-wing activist, I am sure that his dishonest credentials would be no problem for left-wingers. Yes, Decotelli could be a quota advocate with fake degrees, but he would be protected if he were a left-winger. His biggest problem is being not totally left-wing.
Yet, to be a dishonest Christian is a very serious sin.
The fact is that the Bolsonaro administration has been very unwise in its choices of ministers. But Decotelli disappointed Brazilian evangelicals.
It is not new that evangelicals, who were considered vital for Bolsonaro’s election, yearned for a position as Minister of Education. Early in 2019, televangelist Silas Malafaia had recommended evangelical Guilherme Schelb to the Ministry of Education, but his recommendation was defeated under the influence of esoteric guru Olavo de Carvalho, who chose his adherent Ricardo Vélez.
A good quality of Velez: he did not like socialism. Two bad qualities about him: He didn’t like Trump, but he liked Hillary Clinton.
When Vélez became a disaster at the Ministry of Education, Bolsonaro himself confessed that he had chosen him blindly. He said:
“I was wrong at the beginning when I appointed Ricardo Vélez as minister. Was it an indication of Olavo de Carvalho? It was, I won’t deny it… Then I called him: ‘Olavo, where did you know Vélez from?’”
Despite Vélez’s failure, Bolsonaro gave a new opportunity to Carvalho, who chose Abraham Weintraub in May 2019. Without delay, Weintraub announced that one of his priorities would be to increase the number of daycare centers. My reaction came in the article “Brazilian Minister of Education Abraham Weintraub and His Right-Wing Socialism or Right-Wing Statism,” in which I said:
“The concept of daycare — to move the child away from the mother as early as possible — is a concept embraced, defended and widely practiced in socialism.”
With Vélez and Weintraub, the tentacles of Olavo de Carvalho’s ideological indoctrination threatened 57 million children and young people in schools in Brazil.
It is assumed that Bolsonaro did not give Carvalho the opportunity to make a third (disastrous) choice because right at the beginning of June 2020, Carvalho called the Bolsonaro administration “sh*t,” saying he can overthrow it.
Even though the choice of Decotelli was disastrous, the disasters of Carvalho’s choices were bigger.
On January 2020 Bolsonaro fired Roberto Alvim, the Brazilian top culture official, after Alvim quoted Nazi Goebbels while talking about nationalist art in a video as Hitler’s favorite composer played in the background. Alvim is a hard-core adherent of Carvalho.
For the National Art Foundation, Bolsonaro appointed Dante Mantovani, a hard-core adherent of Carvalho. After Mantovani talked about what he should never talk, he was fired. After intense pressure of Carvalho, he was reinstalled, and again fired.
Among stupid statements of Mantovani are:
“People who believe that the Earth is a globe are great at making jokes about the self-evident flatness of the Earth’s surface, but they are absolutely unable to come up with a single argument or proof of Earth’s delusional sphericity. The closest they get to an argument supporting the spinning ball are the computer graphics made by NASA, the Cold War propaganda and disinformation organization, whose authors themselves have come out to say that it’s all fake.”
Olavo de Carvalho, the guru of Mantovani, Alvim and other officials in the Brazilian government, at last recognized that he did a wrong recommendation in the case of the minister of Education. He confessed that he recommended Vélez to Bolsonaro even though he had no contact with Vélez for over 20 years! That was his excuse.
Yet, in the case of Ernesto Araújo, whom he recommended to Bolsonaro as foreign affair minister, he said that he hit the bull’s eyes. Araújo has openly praised Julius Evola, the guru of the Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Evola is the author of several right-wing, anti-Marxist and occult books. Yes, he advocated at the same time the right-wing, anti-Marxist ideology and witchcraft.
I am sure that he hit the bull’s eyes, because Araújo has the same occult preferences Carvalho has.
If occultism was bad lucky for Evola and Mussolini, how can it represent good lucky for Brazil?
Brazil does not need Decotelli to help people advance with fake merits and credentials.
Brazil does not need people with occult history to harm its society.
Brazil needs integrity and real Christianity — without syncretism.
Brazil needs an encounter with Christ.
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